Connection question

[HomeTheaterVirgin]

If you hook up a Xbox 360 to a reciever by componet along with a sat box by hdmi do I still have to run a Hdmi and componet cable to the tv or just a Hdmi cable?

[Uniquely]

That's going to depend upon the specific receiver... but the odds are very high that most likely you would just need to run HDMI to the tv. What receiver?

[HomeTheaterVirgin]

One of the new elite recievers vsx 21.I just thought since the xbox is componet I would have to run the componet to the av and then a componet to the tv.

[Uniquely]

Nope....... that one has uprezzing.... so anything you input in the receiver.... even composite or s-video, can be output to the tv via hdmi.

[rkolinski]

Originally Posted by HomeTheaterVirgin

If you hook up a Xbox 360 to a reciever by componet along with a sat box by hdmi do I still have to run a Hdmi and componet cable to the tv or just a Hdmi cable?

Not necessarily! The Denon AVR790 has a video reference series processor from Anchor Bay technologies, providing analog-to-digital video deinterlacing and upconversion to HD, with both component and HDMI outputs, and features 1080p 24Hz/60Hz HDMI pass-through, allowing a single HDMI cable run to your HDTV. In other words, it will convert your component video signal to HDMI. And it can be had for a very good price! Hope this helps but there are other options out there.

[crackinhedz]

me personally, I would just connect the xbox Component cables directly to the TV. Keeps the signal distance as short as possible, and no unecessary conversions need to take place.

But, If you just want less clutter going to the TV, then yeah, the HDMI upconvert might be for you.

[HomeTheaterVirgin]

Originally Posted by crackinhedz

me personally, I would just connect the xbox Component cables directly to the TV. Keeps the signal distance as short as possible, and no unecessary conversions need to take place.

But, If you just want less clutter going to the TV, then yeah, the HDMI upconvert might be for you.

But then the sound wont come on through my speakers?

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by HomeTheaterVirgin

But then the sound wont come on through my speakers?

Optical cable to the receiver.

[HomeTheaterVirgin]

Originally Posted by crackinhedz

Optical cable to the receiver.

If I hook it up this way will it interfere with the one touch were I just push the button on the harmony remote and it will turn on the reciever the tv and the xbox?

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by HomeTheaterVirgin

If I hook it up this way will it interfere with the one touch were I just push the button on the harmony remote and it will turn on the reciever the tv and the xbox?

You would have to assign a new activity or change existing activity to reflect the changes made...ex, the TV needing to be on the Component input, the receiver needing to be set to optical input etc.

But...in the end, yeah you would only need one button.